Professor George Steiner
02/18/96 • 38 min
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Professor George Steiner. One of the most prominent intellectuals of our time, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how the English academic establishment has taken decades to accept him despite his early popularity as a Cambridge lecturer, and about the problem of reconciling the love of beauty with great acts of evil. He'll also be describing how his family left Austria for France in the 1920s and how he was one of only two boys to survive in his class in the largely Jewish lycee he attended in Paris.
When asked to select just one record to take to the island, Professor George said that for him, it was all or nothing.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Book: 500 year ahead calendar and appointment book Luxury: Computer
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Professor George Steiner. One of the most prominent intellectuals of our time, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how the English academic establishment has taken decades to accept him despite his early popularity as a Cambridge lecturer, and about the problem of reconciling the love of beauty with great acts of evil. He'll also be describing how his family left Austria for France in the 1920s and how he was one of only two boys to survive in his class in the largely Jewish lycee he attended in Paris.
When asked to select just one record to take to the island, Professor George said that for him, it was all or nothing.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Book: 500 year ahead calendar and appointment book Luxury: Computer
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Susan Hill
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the country's best-known novelists.
Author of I'm the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting and The Woman in Black, among many other books, Susan Hill will be talking to Sue Lawley about the inspiration for her recent and highly-acclaimed sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca; about the loneliness which characterised her childhood and about the relationship between tragedy in her own life and the way she writes about it in her novels.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Tom Bowling by Benjamin Britten Book: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford Luxury: The Barnes Collection (paintings)
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Sir Roy Calne
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a surgeon and a painter.
Sir Roy Calne - Professor of Surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge - will be talking to Sue Lawley about his early conviction that transplant surgery was a viable way of treating kidney and liver disease, about his struggles to have his ideas accepted and about the paintings he has done of his patients - many of which have been the subject of several public exhibitions.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Symphony No 9 From The New World (Opus 95) by Antonin Dvořák Book: Global Biodiversity by Brian Groombridge Luxury: Paints and canvas
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